Why does the xorg server consumes so much memory?

[Ben Byer]

On Apr 28, 2007, at 2:59 PM, Bauke Jan Douma wrote:

> Daniel Stone wrote on 28-04-07 15:13:
>
>> This has been requested, but not written.  The best thing to do is to
>> use a tool like xrestop to find out what's consuming so much  
>> memory, and
>> fix it: most programs won't react well at all when XCreatePixmap  
>> returns
>> NULL.
>
> Happened to take a look at xrestop, since I don't use it that often
> (read: almost never).
> Happened across this typo in the output of xrestop -b:
>
> res_base      : ox2400000
>                 ^
> res_mask      : ox1fffff
>                 ^
>
> Looks ugly. Where do I report this, or might we say (I'd prefer) this
> very posting is the bug report?

ok, fixed

commit 1f93390ce63016bbeef8e99fac3049514a72e3d7
Author: Ben Byer <bbyer at bbyer.(none)>
Date:   Sat Apr 28 23:05:13 2007 -0700

     fixed typo in output of xrestop -b